Actually, Ohtsuka's argument is not so far out there. Lots of media theorists argue that film as a medium is based in the technologies and ideologies of war. (Paul Virilio and Friedrich Kittler are the guys I've read who claim this.) But it seems to me to get a bit technologically determinist sometimes, like they're saying "Once a war-machine, always a war-machine." That doesn't strike me as helpful. Instead, I like to think that media, like Donna Haraway's cyborgs, can be "unfaithful to their origins." That's why I hold out hope for anime to criticize war self-reflexively, by looking at its own histories and technologies -like in Millennium Actress.

I'm terribly optimistic sometimes. ^_^